Advocacy : Arts & Disability

Ireland:

UK:

  • Stay up Late
    Campaign run by Heavy Load,the UK's only punk band made up of musicians with and without learning disabilities.
  • Attitude is Everything improves Deaf and disabled people's access to live music by working in partnership with audiences, artists and the music industry to implement a Charter of Best Practice across the UK.
  • CHANGE is the leading UK equal rights organisation led by Disabled People. CHANGE believes that people with learning disabilities should have the same rights and choices as everybody else, and they practice what they preach! People with learning disabilities are employed on equal wages, with responsibility for their own work, giving them the power to change things that affect them.

International:

  • International Guild of Disabled Artists and Performers
    IGODAP is a collective of artists and performers who identify as being disabled or having a disability. Its members are professional and amateur artists and performers of all genres, and producers, directors and others working in the arts and entertainment industries.
  • The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
    The Center works towards making the performing arts accessible to people with disabilities. Its initiatives include the Vilar Internship Program, the Performing Artists with Disabilities On Stage series, and the Experiential Education Initiative (EEI) internship program for individuals with developmental disabilities.
  • The National Arts and Disability Center
    The NADC is a national information dissemination, technical assistance and referral center specializing in the field of arts and disability. The NADC promotes the inclusion of children and adults with disabilities into the visual, performing, media, and literary arts communities. Its resource directories, annotated bibliographies, related links and conferences serve to advance artists with disabilities and accessibility to the arts.The NADC is a project of the University of California, at Los Angeles (UCLA), Tarjan Center for Developmental Disabilities.
  • VSA Arts
    VSA Arts is an international organization that creates learning opportunities through the arts for people with disabilities. The organization offers arts-based programs in creative writing, dance, drama, music and the visual arts implemented primarily through their affiliates located throughout the U.S. and internationally. VSA Arts’ programs now serve 4.3 million Americans and 1.3 million people in other parts of the world.
  • Disabled Peoples' International is a network of national organizations or assemblies of disabled people, established to promote human rights of disabled people through full participation, equalization of opportunity and development.